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From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone
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This has a huge external impact. Yes they are easily corrected but
unless there is a specific need to remove them my vote would be to
not put people though such a potentially painful change.

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anton Berezin" <tobez@FreeBSD.org>

> In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in
> order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to
> #! /usr/local/bin/perl.
> 
> CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected.
> 
> In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and removal
> will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in
> ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports.


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